Selling of Droids

We are a droid building community, here to help others with their personal builds. Whether it be methods of building, where to source parts, 3d printing, electronics, painting and any other aspects related to the building of your droid. Once you have made it as far as completing your droid, we are here to continue to support all our fellow builders as much as we can, this includes MOTing your droid whether it remote control or static, giving you annual PLI Cover to attend events with fellow droid builders.

The selling of droids however is not acceptable. Whether it be making complete droids to order or the selling of kits for people to build. There are many reasons for this, so to explain, here are a few….

• Lucasfilm issue licenses to companies who sell Star Wars related products of which they pay a lot of money for. Any company selling droids such as Sideshow Collectables, Home Depot, and Disney would hold a license to do so.
• Lucasfilm likes us to build our own droids and attend events along with other Star Wars fan group. However when it comes to selling parts, offering part runs and sharing files to print our droids these could be considered as IP Infringement so there is a fine line between personal builds and selling for profit.
• Over the years we have seen people who have bought droids from eBay, Etsy, Marketplace etc. These droids are typically built for profit and not for personal use, the quality leaves a lot to be desired and with a bit of time and effort a better droid can be made using plans freely available from the club.

As far as the sale of personal droids goes, this is acceptable, within reason. It’s your business what you chose to do with own builds, if however you are regularly building your own droid and then selling on, this is not acceptable.